Basket.



PATENTED SEPT.v 8, 1903.

F. KRETZS-QHMAR.

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NITED STATIsfN Patented September 8, 1903.

'PATENT OFFICE.,

BASKET.

SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of .Letters Patent No. 738,724, dated September 8,'1903.

` Application led Noyember 7, 199%. `Serial No. 130,440. (No model.)

To all whom it concern:

Be it knownthat LFRED KRETZSGHMAR, a citizen of the Unitedstatearesiding at Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illi-V nois, have inventedfcertain new and useful Improvements in Baskets, of, which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact speciiication.`

My improvements :have more especial reference to the rim of the basket and its connected parts; and the invention has for its primary object to materially strengthen such rim without, however,- constructing the same 1 entirely of metal, as has heretofore been pro-` `View of one corner thereof.

posed, but which is objectionable, because it' is easily bent and difficult to straighten, and the shape of the basket is thereby destroyed,

to say nothing of the additional weight and:

expense entailed by theiemployment of such metal rims.

With these ends in view my invention con- `parts by which the said object and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure l is a vertical cross-section of abasket constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic section 'ta-ken at right angles to the section plane of Fig. 1, showing the basview of one of the corners with the rim-sticks secu red therein.

The main body of the basket may be constructed of woven willows, ratan, wickers, or

other suitable strips 1 in the usual or any suit` able way; but the rim of the basket is comy posed of a number ofplain metallic corners having solid portions and sockets 2 2a and sticks 3, having their ends inserted in these sockets against the solid portions, as clearly shown inFigs. 2 and `4. The shape of the corners is dependent `upon the shape of the basket. If the basket be square or rectanf -`wood, or any other suitable material, and af on the basket without aid of any other at! taching means, and at the same time the body of the basket will be given a secure support fromthe rim thus constructed.y

Where the sides of the basket are provided with longitudinal bars or sticks 5, which is common in some forms of baskets, the side `wires 4 may be secured at their lower ends in .these sticks; but where such sticks are not employed the wires are preferably` carried along the bottom of the basket, interwoven with the ratan 1, and up the sides or ends, with both extremities of vthe wires attached to the rim, as shown in the diagrammatic view in Fig. 3, thus preventing the possibility of the rim pulling loose with the wires.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A basket comprising a continuous body and bottom of woven strips, a rim consisting of corners having sockets and sticks extending from socket to socket and having their ends simply inserted in the sockets, and the binding-wires threaded through the woven strips of the body and looped to the corners and sticks for holding the corners with the sticks `in place.

2. A basket comprising a continuous body and bottom of woven strips, a rim consisting iof corners having solid portions and sockets and sticks extending from socket to socket and having` their ends simply insertedin the sockets and impinging against the solid portions of the corners and the bindingwires threaded through the woven strips of the bodyand looped to the corners and sticks for hold4` ILO 

